Please don't pick and choose, remember an entire life.

Michael Jackson.

Yesterday and today are troubling me a bit. With the recent passing of Michael Jackson, generations of people are showing their love and warm memories of the man.

Which is a very genuine and sincere thing to feel. But what is a tad disturbing to me is when some people (No one in specific) say, "Let's remember him for his music!" or in the like.

To me, this is very ignorant and naive. How can we justifiably choose to only remember what we want? Are we that removed from reality now? I am not accusing Michael Jackson of his prior misgivings. I am not sure what happened during his sleep overs. Could of been completely innocent or very vile, I am not here to judge him.

I only ask that people stop choosing to only remember him as a musician. He was a man, and remember the life and all that happened in it. Because we can learn just as much from his mistakes and faults as we can from his cool beats and vocal stylings. This reminds me of a situation with professional Wrestler Chris Benoit, who killed his wife and autistic child a while back. The media lambasted him but the wrestling community only wanted to remember his work in ring.

But hopefully this trend doesn't continue.

What will happen when OJ dies? "OMG he was such a great running back!!! Lets remember him as an athlete and comedy spoof actor."

Or Phil Specter? "Yeah he may of shot a girl in cold blood, but dude he produced a BEATLES album."

Or Chris Brown? "Dude he danced really good!!! Who cares if Rhiana can't take a hit."

Or to the most extreme level, "Hitler was a moderately passable painter, so lets remember that."

Now I am not a stranger to death, I lost my mother close to a decade ago and I lost someone very close to me recently. Both women were very strong and filled with kindness in their hearts and I choose to remember their lives as a whole and not picking and choosing. In the long run you would just rob yourself of more learning experiences.

In closing, it is sad that the King of Pop has passed away at such a young. His entire life basically shown to the public through a lens. Do I wish he cleared up his name? Yes. Do I wish his looming comeback was successful and he made another great album? A resounding yes.

But we don't get that and now we have a tarnished legacy which should be remembered in its entirety.

Sam Rockwell MOON's me.

This was originally supposed to only be a small review on Facebook's Flixter, but I just kept writing and writing.

I had to drive out quite a bit to catch Moon last night. I have to say it was well worth the gas and time. Relative new director Duncan Jones, brings a very stoic and quite Science FIction film to life. I don't want to give much away, I actually only heard it was good from some trusted sources and decided to jump in without viewing a trailer. It was worth the gamble, the film was probably one of the best Sci-Fi films I have seen in the past couple of years. Well this Sunshine and Star Trek. But it was the opposite of what Star Trek is. It wasn't big and sprawling, there were no big action set pieces or alien encounters. It dealt with an amazing Sam Rockwell, doing the best acting job of his career, and his loyal computer Gerty. Sam Rockwell plays astronaut Sam Bell, who works for the Lunar incorporation collecting H3 energy and sending it back to earth. He is signed a 3 year contract to be alone and collect data on the Moon. But towards the end of his tenure, things start to go a little crazy. Now the audience may have to take a bit of a leap within the first act of the film. But I chose to follow, and it was worth it. I'd say check it out, it's only in like 3 theaters in LA. I saw it at the Edwards University 8 in Irvine. I wish I had a better seat, but I tend to love the whole run down theater that shows art house films. It's almost like method movie watching. One more thing, there practical effects used in the film brought me back to a nostalgic time in my life. I used to love seeing models in movies, and i'm glad the feeling still resonates with me. There were a great deal of exterior model shots during the film, so I was glad to see they didn't have to resort to CGI. (Well they probably didn't have the money for it anyway.) All in all, Moon was great. I want to see it again, now knowing what I have in store for me I think I can truly get more out of it.